PombeDoc
Distinguished Professor, fission yeast geneticist. Replication stress and genome integrity. Photographer. 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by PombeDocWelcome, piles of slop filling up the journals with clouds of useless wordy garbage. Case in point:
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- Reposted by PombeDoc1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by PombeDocNSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
- Reposted by PombeDocI'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.
- Reposted by PombeDocFirmly believe this would serve multiple needs.
- Reposted by PombeDocWatch this video if you want to cry over overwhelming decency rather than over rage about what some are trying to turn our country into.
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- Reposted by PombeDoc🔔 New paper alert 🔔 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some regions in the genome replicate early and some late, but the why and how remain poorly understood. DNA replication and 3D genome organization appear linked, raising the question if one may regulate the other? (1/n)
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- Reposted by PombeDocA Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
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- Reposted by PombeDocThe end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks. This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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- Rare winter bloom in the Anza Borrego desert @anzaborrego.bsky.social
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- Reposted by PombeDocA bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
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- Reposted by PombeDocI don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
- Reposted by PombeDocGentle reminder that everyone should read Jacob and Monod, 1961. And then read it again every once in awhile. A master-class on clear writing (and, ya know, Nobel Prize winning stuff, too). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by PombeDocIf you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
- Reposted by PombeDoc“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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- If any Senator caves, never ever vote for any of them again. Any of them.
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- Reposted by PombeDocNew York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
- I just discovered i have a Wikipedia page. I didnt create it and it’s not entirely accurate. Now what.
- I want @dieworkwear.bsky.social to comment on #dapperguy
- Reposted by PombeDoc@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
- Reposted by PombeDocBreaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage. This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
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- Reposted by PombeDocyou fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
- as well as I5 freeway, the railway will also be shut through Camp Pendleton tomorrow to avoid the live ammo being hurled onshore. Just severing the ENTIRE transport connection between the 2nd and 8th largest US metros
- FIGHT ON!!!!
- BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE! That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted. Stay tuned! 🍿 #DefendHigherEd #StandUpFightBack
- Are you kidding me???
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- Reposted by PombeDocPhages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- Proud to be an MIT alum today.
- Reposted by PombeDocThis is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.
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- Reposted by PombeDocThis year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. scim.ag/3Wt5rdi
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- Reposted by PombeDocThe real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
- Reposted by PombeDocit may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation
